Good afternoon and welcome to Stamford Bridge, where Gianfranco Zola is set to speak to the media following the 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest.

It took a while for the Blues to make the breakthrough against the Championship opposition, with Cesc Fabregas missing from the penalty spot after Ruben Loftus-Cheek was brought down.

Loftus-Cheek was later substituted in the first half, leaving the pitch with an injury problem and apparently in tears.

Alvaro Morata opened the scoring shortly after half-time following good work from Callum Hudson-Odoi, and the pair combined again on the hour mark to add a second before Morata was eventually replaced.

Key Events

Cudicini done

Hudson-Odoi.

He did very well, a 360 performance. He worked very hard, he was running for two, his commitment was great. You want him to have performances like that to put doubts in Maurizio’s mind.

17:32

Cahill future?

Maurizio will have a press conference on Monday and you can ask him about that.

17:32

Fabregas, is he gone?

I don’t know. If it is the last game it is good he played in front of his fans. As I said I don’t know. He was captain in pre-season when Cahill wasn’t on, Aspi wasn’t He can take penalties, it won’t be the first or the last when someone misses a penalty. The keeper did well.

What can I say about Cesc? 500 games. He is unique in his position, unbelievable visiojn, awareness and he can spot runs behind the defensive line so precise. He is one of a kind that can do that. He has been fantastic for the teams before us and the contribution to his club has been amazing. He has been fantastic.

17:30

Loftus-Cheek back injury

Yes. We are very sorry for the kid. His impact for the games that he played so far, even today I feel he was contributing very much It is a pity. It is something we need to resolve and maybe he might have to stop for a bit to resolve. He is doing very well.

17:29

Morata

I think he played an important part of the performance. He worked hard for the team, offensively and defensively. It was very important for him to score two goals. We were pleased with his performance, but even when he didn’t score. Hopefully he will be more free in his mind.

I think Gianfranco mentioned before the match that it is difficult when you score goals. He is working hard in training and we knew that he could turn a corner and score goals. We want to do well in this competition.

He has the possibility to score 20 goals, he is a great striker and I am sure he can do that.

Sometimes everyone is different. Players can be more affected by the critics they can have. It is important he is training hard, the performance on top of the goals was important.

17:26KEY EVENT

Cudicini is here

17:26

Expecting Cudicini

Apparently Zola has the flu and we are expecting Cudicini to do the post match press conference this afternoon.

17:17

That's it

Karanka is done for now... that was quick

17:17

Out of the cup...

You are never happy to lose, but now we have time to recover as the players got tired mentally and physically.

17:16KEY EVENT

Karanka is here

you can see the difference in the level. But I can’t say anything bad about my players. They never gave up. Even losing 2-0 we were trying to press them high. We lost against a good Chelsea team.

17:11

Farewell Fabregas

17:11

Player ratings

Here is how Oliver Harbord rated the Chelsea players after that win. A brace for Morata, two assists by Hudson-Odoi, that will do nicely. Check out the ratings here.